Letters to the Editor
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Can't really argue with that...
It is long past the time when triangulation is the right answer. It is time for a real liberal and Clinton is not one. Unfortunately, neither is Obama. Oh Well, anything is better than the ghouls the GOP has running.
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What are "Negatnes"?
Now I want some of them!
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[To the tune of the "Green Acres "Theme Song]
John Edwards is the guy for me!
John's accent: Smartish Coun-ter-ee!
John Edwards, with your quaint hair-doo...
John, get a buzz-cut, and we will all vote for you!
eh-eh-eheheh-EH-EH!
eh-eh-eheheh-EH-EH!
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Why win? We're Democrats.
Remember all your cartoons about the Gore-bot, Mr. Tomorrow?Sure lucky we didn't get that loser for president. He wasn't perfect, like Mr. Nader. Who would please you? Kucinich? Oh please. He would be a disaster as president. He could not even manage Cleveland. And Ron Paul? Another little nut from Texas? No thanks.
I'm voting for a grownup. I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
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That's right, blame the messenger
:-)
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yeah, she sucks, Tom
Like Gore-Bot 2000. Glad we got the authentic brush-clearer in there! BTW, who's your favorite columnist -- Maureen Dowd? I love your stuff, TT ... but can we stow the they're-all-the-same bullshit until AFTER we get rid of the criminal warmongering scum we have now?
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What planet is Tom Tomorrow from?
I remember when Congress voted for the Iraq war. I remember all the ambiguity of those times. I disagreed then with the vote to authorize the use of force but I've never faulted those who voted that way. They were certainly not gullible. I came to my decision because I live in Texas and had watched George W. Bush lie and sleaze his way around as Governor and I simply didn't trust him. Hillary, on the other hand, had the fact that even during the last years of the Clinton administration it was believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD. It was entirely reasonable for someone not from Texas to give Bush the benefit of a doubt at that time. Tom Tomorrow is attempting to re-write history.
One of the common complaints I read on liberal blogs is that Hillary won't come out unequivocally against the war, and she hasn't. Yet here Tom Tomorrow claims she has. Tom Tomorrow is inventing his own facts to discredit Hillary. How Republican of him.
Hillary is a problem solver. That's what this country needs right now. Ideologically purity has given us George W. Bush. Do we really need more of that? Stupid on the left is still stupid.
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Point
I'm no genius, but when the original Iraq authorization bill came around it seemed totally obvious to me that it was handing George W. Bush a blank check to do exactly what he desperately wanted and needed to do: get this country into a war that would give the Republicans the whip hand over the Dems.
So, what - am I smarter than Hillary? If so, maybe I should run for President.
Alternatively, if she made the calculation that a "no" vote would cause political damage to her future Presidential campaign, then she cynically sold the lives and health of our soldiers - as well as that of untold Iraqis, our national economy, and the Democratic Party itself - for her own personal gain. In which case she belongs in jail, not the White House.
Much like the current residents, come to think of it.
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Hillary Has a Po$$e
Wow, looks like the HRC campaign has loosed its blog dogs--perhaps paid, perhaps not--to trash Mr. Tom Tomorrow. Apparently they all got the same memo, which states, in effect:
* point out that TT didn't like Gore, thus implying that he is to blame for electing Bush Jr.
* make it appear as though the choice is between HRC and a Republican, rather than HRC and a real Democrat who can actually beat a Republican.
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Yes, Tom...
For god's sake, don't criticize Her Imperial Majesty. After all, she's a "grown-up" (whatever THAT means) even if she's "not ideologically pure" (as cheerily euphemistic a way to say "hypocrite" as I've ever seen). Please, just drink the Kool Aid.
Don't call attention to her foolish-- or worse, calculated-- mistakes. Pay no attention to her wrongheaded, dangerous ways. She's Hillary and that should be enough.
At least, enough for those determined to maintain the Democratic Party of the 21st Century in it's second rate, rudderless status.
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just to add ...
I'm an Edwards guy ... then Obama the Good ... and I think HRC is the one person who can lose next year. That said, she's light-years better than any GOP turd floating in their punchbowl.
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high hopes for the democrats in 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait until we all vote for a Democrat in 2008!! Then the war will be over and everything will be okay!!! Just like when we voted for all those Democrats in the House and Senate in 2006!! They sure gave those wackos in the White House a tough time!!! Go Hillary!!!
C'mon now. The whole "at least they're not as bad as the Republicans! Really, they're not, I swear!" routine is getting really old really fast. You can bash Nader all you want, but the only power we have to influence the actions of our elected officials is to make sure they know we have the power to NOT vote for them. If they know that they're our only option, what incentive is there for them to do ANYTHING besides what their corporate backers want them to do? I would think that the fact that the 2006 midterm election failed to put even a speed bump in the path of of this derailed administration might wake you up just the teensiest little bit.
But whatever. You can vote for Hillary and laugh at me when the heavens open and shower the world with love and light on January 21st, 2009. But over here in reality land, I'm having a little bit more trouble drinking that particular glass of Kool-Aid. But I guess we gotta throw our lot in with the Democrats, eh? They're sure better than them Republicans, huh?
I'm looking forward to the TMW strip that shows Sparky as the 1940's private dick, uncovering Police Commissioner Harry Reid as the kingpin for the evil cartel.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/16/telecoms/index.html
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My thoughts exactly
I'm not surprised the Beltway establishment is behind Hillary, but I keep expecting some poll of likely Democratic primary voters to show that they were rejecting Hillary -- simply on the basis that the right-wing noise machine wouldn't have to argue the merits of ANYTHING she proposes for the next four years -- all they'd have to do is continue to declare that she is the liberal feminazi Satan incarnate, and therefore everything she believes in is damned.
How can Hillary possibly be the one to take America in the direction it needs to go? How can anyone get rid of that much baggage? Obama isn't perfect, but he starts with a clean slate -- and he's just as likely to win as Hillary.
But somehow the polls keep showing Hillary way ahead of both Obama and John Edwards -- with her strongest showing among unsophisticated, less educated Democratic voters, the very kind whom you'd think would understand the mindset of those who viscerally hate the Clintons. You'd think that the average Democrat was smart enough not to go over that cliff, but it doesn't look that way.
I really don't get it.